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I can't help thinking that if I had had more of it & more feeling that the world cared for what I printed, I would have -- before I was sixty -- come into a freer & more assured [wholesome?] - This past year I have written more than in any year since the New Day In other words I [?] havw been & was fine more of an artist.
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out of strong contemporaries (like deKay's; whose sturdy genius made my forms seem weak.)
(You started me in an epthetic direction) When the other night, I saw you in the audience, with "the child.", it warmed me with courage & your kindly nodded approval made me feel I had not altogether failed. Gratefully as ever RW Gilder